2014 Outwitters World Cup! [Grand Final]

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For group stages it will be 2 games per matchup, so you get P1 and P2 once each on the same map. Added with the race limitations this should make interesting matches as you both need to decide what race you would like to use as P1 or P2.

We are doing this for the group stages for 2 reasons:

1. While FTA has definitely been severely mitigated since the first world cup, there are definitely still some maps that have an FTA/STA and we don't want anyone getting eliminated early on because of an unlucky draw. Also this gives us a chance to throw all these maps into the group play rounds rather than have them being a tiebreaker map in the eliminations.

2. Another reason is to just give lower level players more games in the tournament! Groups are a bit bigger now so it's not as extreme, but it's still nice to have 8 tournament games instead of 4 before getting eliminated already.



As for the semi-finals groups vs elimination, we are going back and forth now. Obviously this was originally modeled after the actual World Cup (which is this year! yay!), but as thrutchy said there is no massive stage here for people to get to watch the finals, so round robin wouldn't be bad. However, especially with the awards given, it would also be a lot more fun to pit two people against each other and call it the $250 match.

People not really following the tournament who just want to watch how it turned out at the end are far more likely to watch the final best of 5 match between two people, rather than being given 6-12 replays from 4 people, with no real signature or deciding match.

For now I think we are actually leaning towards keeping the original elimination all the way through with the grand best of 5 final at the end, but it's not for certain yet.